Nicole van der Hoeven: A Polymath with Obsidian as a Modern Zibaldone

With Malik Alimoekhamedov at PKM Summit

I joined Malik Alimoekhamedov on his podcast The Mechanics of Knowledge Management for a long conversation about Obsidian, PKM, and the Renaissance-era zibaldone tradition — the personal commonplace books that thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci kept as a hybrid of journal, reference, and idea workshop. We talked about how a modern Obsidian vault can play the same role for someone trying to think across domains, and about what changes when you treat your notes as the exhaust of learning rather than the destination.

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Thanks to Malik for the wide-ranging conversation.

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